After having been on the message boards at saynoto0870.com these last few days I now realise that it’s imperative to have an open API to the numbers database. There are so many developers on the saynoto0870 message boards who are desperate to use the data to create all sorts of wonderful applications - often offering to do it in their own time for free, and they are all getting flatly ignored by the site admin.
We’ve just updated the design for the site, hope you like it. I’ve tried to keep it simple and functional and it actually mirrors the style of the mobile application pretty well.
More news on that soon, but for now here’s a screen cap of the main menu in the mobile version:
main menu of mobile application
I’m not expecting to make a whole load of cash from this site, far from it, but it would be nice if it paid for itself. One option would be to put some ads on the site. What kind of adverts would be appropriate? One product I certainly won’t be advertising is 0870 number providers - unlike (bizarrely) the saynoto0870 site seems to do.
One of the most important parts of a service that provides free alternatives to premium 0870 and 0845 numbers is the database of numbers and their alternatives. These are not easy to come by.
There’s a real problem with naming things after technologies, or version numbers or phone numbers. All of those things are subject to change, and when they do, your name looks wrong or out of date.